Pub Date : 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102179
Cephas Simon Peter Dak-Adzaklo , Solomon Wise Dodzidenu Adza , Joseph Maxwell Asamoah , Pascar Tagwan Tah
We investigate the impact of societal secrecy on corporate debt financing decisions. Based a sample of 30,680 firms across 34 countries, we find robust evidence that societal secrecy is positively associated with bank debt financing and negatively associated with public debt financing. This finding is robust to a wide variety of sensitivity tests and to addressing endogeneity concerns. Cross-sectional analyses show that strong shareholder rights protection and the degree of internationalization moderate the relation between societal secrecy and debt choice. Additional analyses reveal that societal secrecy influences the choice of debt financing through three channels: information asymmetry, proprietary cost information, and information production cost. Our study sheds light on societal secrecy as a potential explanation for the variations in public debt market development across countries.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-05DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102184
Md Jaber Al Islam , Fernando Moreira , Mustapha Douch
Despite growing research on corporate environmental performance, the effect of banks’ environmental engagement on funding costs remains unclear. While some evidence suggests that environmentally committed banks secure lower funding costs, other studies report no significant effect, leaving the evidence inconclusive. This study addresses this inconsistency by analysing distinct funding cost measures in a global sample and demonstrating that banks with strong environmental engagement consistently benefit from reduced funding costs across multiple dimensions. The advantage is more pronounced among banks in advanced, less concentrated economies with stronger currencies and lower deposit levels. The Paris Agreement has raised awareness among depositors and investors about their role in mitigating climate change. Although such support is generally driven by sound risk management, capital adequacy, and asset size, periods of rising real interest rates and economic crises shift priorities toward higher financial returns. Our results remain robust across alternative samples, model specifications, estimation methods, funding cost measures, and endogeneity correction techniques.
{"title":"Does Banks’ environmental engagement impact funding costs?","authors":"Md Jaber Al Islam , Fernando Moreira , Mustapha Douch","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing research on corporate environmental performance, the effect of banks’ environmental engagement on funding costs remains unclear. While some evidence suggests that environmentally committed banks secure lower funding costs, other studies report no significant effect, leaving the evidence inconclusive. This study addresses this inconsistency by analysing distinct funding cost measures in a global sample and demonstrating that banks with strong environmental engagement consistently benefit from reduced funding costs across multiple dimensions. The advantage is more pronounced among banks in advanced, less concentrated economies with stronger currencies and lower deposit levels. The Paris Agreement has raised awareness among depositors and investors about their role in mitigating climate change. Although such support is generally driven by sound risk management, capital adequacy, and asset size, periods of rising real interest rates and economic crises shift priorities toward higher financial returns. Our results remain robust across alternative samples, model specifications, estimation methods, funding cost measures, and endogeneity correction techniques.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102184"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102173
Walter Bazán-Palomino, Marco Ortiz, Marco E. Terrones, Diego Winkelried
This paper examines how private bank regulation and liquidity provided by the Federal Reserve in the US are related to deviations from the covered interest parity (CIP). We find evidence that the effects of bank liquidity on CIP deviations partially offset those resulting from regulatory changes in a sample of 11 OECD countries over the 2001-2019 period. This finding supports the conjecture that changes in private banks’ liquidity and regulation can significantly affect the cross-currency basis. Interestingly, the effects of liquidity on CIP deviations become more pronounced as bank regulation intensifies, reflecting interaction effects. One implication is that stricter regulations may amplify liquidity-related distortions, thereby increasing CIP deviations.
{"title":"The role of US bank liquidity and regulations in Covered Interest Parity deviations","authors":"Walter Bazán-Palomino, Marco Ortiz, Marco E. Terrones, Diego Winkelried","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how private bank regulation and liquidity provided by the Federal Reserve in the US are related to deviations from the covered interest parity (CIP). We find evidence that the effects of bank liquidity on CIP deviations partially offset those resulting from regulatory changes in a sample of 11 OECD countries over the 2001-2019 period. This finding supports the conjecture that changes in private banks’ liquidity and regulation can significantly affect the cross-currency basis. Interestingly, the effects of liquidity on CIP deviations become more pronounced as bank regulation intensifies, reflecting interaction effects. One implication is that stricter regulations may amplify liquidity-related distortions, thereby increasing CIP deviations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102173"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102175
Jun Hee Kwak , Bada Han , Jae Young Lee
In this paper, we estimate the causal effects of gross equity inflows into an open economy using the Granular Instrument Variable (GIV) constructed from regulatory data on foreign investments in the Korean stock market. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in monthly foreign inflows into the Korean stock market results in approximately a 2.2% rise in the Korean benchmark stock price index and a 1.0% appreciation of the Korean won against the US dollar. These foreign inflows also lead to drops in short-term treasury bond rates and improvements in dollar funding conditions. Our empirical results are consistent with the Inelastic Market Hypothesis.
{"title":"The causal effects of equity flows: Evidence from Korea","authors":"Jun Hee Kwak , Bada Han , Jae Young Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we estimate the causal effects of gross equity inflows into an open economy using the Granular Instrument Variable (GIV) constructed from regulatory data on foreign investments in the Korean stock market. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in monthly foreign inflows into the Korean stock market results in approximately a 2.2% rise in the Korean benchmark stock price index and a 1.0% appreciation of the Korean won against the US dollar. These foreign inflows also lead to drops in short-term treasury bond rates and improvements in dollar funding conditions. Our empirical results are consistent with the Inelastic Market Hypothesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102175"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144178627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines how the secondary market for corporate green bonds reacts to the announcement of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) incidents. We compare the cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) of green bonds with those of similar conventional bonds issued by the same firm, using a large international sample covering the period 2013–2022. Our results indicate that the performance of both green and conventional bonds declines after an ESG incident, but the decline is more pronounced for conventional bonds. We attribute this finding to the cost-effectiveness motive driving investors’ response to the ESG incident, as we find that a) there is no green premium (at issuance) in our sample, and b) green bonds are, on average, less liquid than conventional bonds, making the latter easier to sell due to lower transaction costs. Consistent with this argument, we observe opposite findings − namely, no significant performance differences and conventional bonds outperforming green bonds after the ESG incident − only in cases where green bonds exhibit higher liquidity, such as those issued by European firms or those compliant with the Climate Bond Initiative (CBI) standards.
{"title":"ESG incidents and corporate green bond market reaction","authors":"Matteo Cotugno , Paolo Fiorillo , Stefano Monferrà , Sabrina Severini","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how the secondary market for corporate green bonds reacts to the announcement of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) incidents. We compare the cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) of green bonds with those of similar conventional bonds issued by the same firm, using a large international sample covering the period 2013–2022. Our results indicate that the performance of both green and conventional bonds declines after an ESG incident, but the decline is more pronounced for conventional bonds. We attribute this finding to the cost-effectiveness motive driving investors’ response to the ESG incident, as we find that a) there is no green premium (at issuance) in our sample, and b) green bonds are, on average, less liquid than conventional bonds, making the latter easier to sell due to lower transaction costs. Consistent with this argument, we observe opposite findings − namely, no significant performance differences and conventional bonds outperforming green bonds after the ESG incident − only in cases where green bonds exhibit higher liquidity, such as those issued by European firms or those compliant with the Climate Bond Initiative (CBI) standards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102178"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144166660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102164
Kais Bouslah , Qian (Jan) Li , Asma Mobarek
We investigate whether female directors influence the social responsibility of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). We also explore the factors that might affect the influence of female directors on the different dimensions of MFIs’ social responsibility. Using an international sample of 362 MFIs during the sample period 2010–2018, we find that the impact of female directors on social responsibility of MFIs is positive and not uniform across the various dimensions of social responsibility. We also find that the impact of female board members on MFIs’ social responsibility is stronger when MFIs are structured as not-for-profit organizations. However, local cultural gender values and institutional strength do not affect the relationship between female board members and the social responsibility of MFIs. We contribute to the emerging research stream of women’s representation in the boardrooms of organizations supplying public goods.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102177
Yilan Chen , Shaohai Lei
This study investigates the impact of digitalized tax administration (DTA) on multinational enterprises’ (MNEs’) tax avoidance, with a specific focus on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in tax havens. Using a quasi-natural experiment based on the implementation of Golden Tax Project III (GTP III) in China, we find that home country DTA significantly reduces the difference between nominal and effective tax rates for MNEs by 1.2%. This reduction is primarily driven by a contraction in OFDI breadth in tax havens, which restrains MNEs’ tax avoidance. We demonstrate an asymmetric effect wherein DTA does not significantly influence domestic firms’ tax avoidance, which is attributed to their ability to facilitate cross-regional investment. We also explore the various responses to cross-border tax avoidance approaches employed by MNEs to mitigate the adverse effects of DTA on corporate tax avoidance. Overall, our findings highlight the critical role of home country DTA in managing MNEs’ tax avoidance, particularly in the context of developing countries.
{"title":"Tax avoidance opportunity for multinational enterprises: effects of digitalized tax administration in China","authors":"Yilan Chen , Shaohai Lei","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of digitalized tax administration (DTA) on multinational enterprises’ (MNEs’) tax avoidance, with a specific focus on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in tax havens. Using a quasi-natural experiment based on the implementation of Golden Tax Project III (GTP III) in China, we find that home country DTA significantly reduces the difference between nominal and effective tax rates for MNEs by 1.2%. This reduction is primarily driven by a contraction in OFDI breadth in tax havens, which restrains MNEs’ tax avoidance. We demonstrate an asymmetric effect wherein DTA does not significantly influence domestic firms’ tax avoidance, which is attributed to their ability to facilitate cross-regional investment. We also explore the various responses to cross-border tax avoidance approaches employed by MNEs to mitigate the adverse effects of DTA on corporate tax avoidance. Overall, our findings highlight the critical role of home country DTA in managing MNEs’ tax avoidance, particularly in the context of developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102177"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-16DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102174
Erika Berle, Wanwei (Angela) He, Bernt Arne Ødegaard
We investigate the stock market and corporate consequences of ethically motivated portfolio exclusions. The divestments by Norway’s “Oil Fund,” the world’s largest SWF, provide a sample of stocks facing widespread exclusions by institutional investors. We estimate a return premium (alpha) of about 5% for this “unethical portfolio.” We also consider firms where the oil funds’ exclusion has been reversed. For this portfolio of “newly ethical firms” we do not find a return premium going forward. We investigate to what extent these results can be directly linked to the Oil Fund’s actions. We do not find evidence of a causal link. We investigate the corporate reactions to exclusions. Only 14% of the excluded firms make sufficient changes to their operations for the exclusions to be revoked.
{"title":"The stock market and corporate consequences of ethical exclusions by the world’s largest fund","authors":"Erika Berle, Wanwei (Angela) He, Bernt Arne Ødegaard","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the stock market and corporate consequences of ethically motivated portfolio exclusions. The divestments by Norway’s “Oil Fund,” the world’s largest SWF, provide a sample of stocks facing widespread exclusions by institutional investors. We estimate a return premium (alpha) of about 5% for this “unethical portfolio.” We also consider firms where the oil funds’ exclusion has been reversed. For this portfolio of “newly ethical firms” we do not find a return premium going forward. We investigate to what extent these results can be directly linked to the Oil Fund’s actions. We do not find evidence of a causal link. We investigate the corporate reactions to exclusions. Only 14% of the excluded firms make sufficient changes to their operations for the exclusions to be revoked.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102174"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102176
Lewis L. Gakpa , Issouf Soumaré , Hugues K. Kouadio , Charles K.D. Adjasi
This paper examines the nature of the relationship between Financial Sector Development (FSD) and intra-African trade. Using a sample of African countries with available data from 1998 to 2021, and robust estimation techniques that address endogeneity and omitted variables biases, we find a positive significant impact of the composite financial development indicator and cross-border banking flows on intra-African trade. Further analysis reveals that the effects of the financial institution sub-indicators are more pronounced than those of the financial market sub-indicators. The effects are also heterogeneous across the different African Regional Economic Communities (RECs). Finally, our results show that financial sector development affects intra-African trade indirectly through its impact on the services and industrial sectors.
{"title":"Financial sector development and intra-African trade","authors":"Lewis L. Gakpa , Issouf Soumaré , Hugues K. Kouadio , Charles K.D. Adjasi","doi":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the nature of the relationship between Financial Sector Development (FSD) and intra-African trade. Using a sample of African countries with available data from 1998 to 2021<strong>,</strong> and robust estimation techniques that address endogeneity and omitted variables biases, we find a positive significant impact of the composite financial development indicator and cross-border banking flows on intra-African trade. Further analysis reveals that the effects of the financial institution sub-indicators are more pronounced than those of the financial market sub-indicators. The effects are also heterogeneous across the different African Regional Economic Communities (RECs). Finally, our results show that financial sector development affects intra-African trade indirectly through its impact on the services and industrial sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48119,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102176"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102165
Mohan Fonseka , Yulong Ma , Chengcheng Bei , Lalith P. Samarakoon
This paper examines the effects of margin trading and stock index futures and the moderating role of firm-level and institution-level characteristics on stock price synchronicity in the Chinese stock markets. We find that both margin trading and stock index futures are positively correlated with stock price synchronicity. Margin trading and stock index futures have greater effects on state-owned enterprises (SOEs), firms with political connections, and firms with male CEOs. Domestic-listed firms and firms in regions with less institutional efficiency experience stronger effects of margin trading and stock index futures on stock price synchronicity. The financial crisis has a negative impact on the above relationships. Overall, margin trading exhibits a stronger effect on stock price synchronicity than stock index futures. Furthermore, we find that the breadth of institutional ownership, management entrenchment, transparency, and information asymmetry are significant channels in moderating the effect of margin trading and stock index futures on stock price synchronicity.
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